Easy, simple but tasty desserts?

Question

Hi- its my parents wedding anniversary on the 31st August and my sister and I are putting on a little party for them. I'm 13 and my sis is 9yrs old- are there any simple, tasty but easy-to-make desserts? Maybe a cake, pie, ice cream flavour, etc?

Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

If you have a microwave try this:

take the favourite fruit of your parents eg. banana / peach

cut it in half length ways, lay on a flat dish.

Put some brown sugar in a small bowl (about one dessert spoon full per person) and if you can add a teaspoon full of whisky / brandy / Sherry / port / to the sugar

Heat on full power for 1 minute maximum.

Allow the now melted sugar / alcohol mix to cool for about 30 seconds.

Pour the sugar mix over the banana / peach and heat in microwave for 30 seconds.

Pour some fresh cream on top and serve straight away.

Very tasty, very easy, quite exotic

Answer 2

ya...go to a near-by bakery and order a cake, simple!

Answer 3

everlastings syllabub

10fl.oz white wine

1 tablespoon medium sherry

2tablespoons brandy

1lemon

2 oz castor sugar

10 fl.oz double cream

pour the wine, sherry and brandy into a bowl. peel the lemon very thinly and squeeze out the juice. Add the peel and juice to the wine mixture, cover and leave to stand in a cool place overnight. Next day, remove the peel and discard. Add the sugar to the wine mixture and stir until dissolved.Pour in the cream and whip until the mixture stands in soft peaks. spoon into 4 tall glasses or sundae dishes and serve with boudoir biscuits.Serves 4. Syllabubs will hold it shape for 12 hours

Answer 4

"Berry Misu"

2 cups boiling water

1/2 cup hot chocolate powder

2 eggs, whites only

1/2 cup sugar

2 cups mascarpone

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups whipped cream

2 packages ladyfingers (Italian savoiardi sponge fingers)

1 cup blueberries

1 cup raspberries

2 cups strawberries, sliced in half

chocolate sprinkles and powdered sugar

Sitr hot chocolate powder into boiling water until dissolved. Let cool. Dip half the ladyfingersin chocolate mixture until it soaks in and layer the bottom of a 9 X 11" glass Pyrex dish.

In a mixing bowl, beat egg yolks and sugar until frothy (about 5 minutes). Add marscapone,vanilla, and whipped cream. Whip until gentle peaks form. Spoon half the mixture on top of the ladyfingersand spread with a spatula.

Next take half the berries and make the third layer on top of the marscapone layer. Repeat these three layers.Berries should be the top and final layer. Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours. Dust the berries with powdered sugar and chocolate sprinkles.Serve chilled.

Answer 5

That is so sweet of you to do this for your parents! My suggestion is Southern Banana Pudding

Mix up Jello Instant Banana pudding per the directions on the box

Thaw 2 tubs of Cool-Whip topping

Slice up 3 large bananas

Open one box of Nilla Wafers

When your pudding is set, gently stir in 1 tub of cool-whip

Layer it in a clear plastic bowl or casserole dish:

Layer 1 Nilla wafers

Layer 2 pudding

Layer 3 banana slices

repeat until you have used all of your ingredients

smooth the other cool-whip on the top, crush remaining nilla wafers and sprinkle on top of the cool-whip topping.

Its really yummy and looks beautiful. Good luck! Email me if you have questions : )

Answer 6

Strawberry-Filled Take-Along Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting

A thin layer of fruity jam hides between the frosting and the browned butter-enhanced cake.

  

  

Cake

1/2 cup butter (do not use margarine)

1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® butter recipe yellow cake mix

1 1/4 cups water

3 eggs

1/2 cup strawberry jam or preserves

Brown Sugar Frosting

1/2 cup butter  

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/4 cup milk

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1. In heavy 1-quart saucepan, heat 1/2 cup butter over medium heat, moving and turning pan occasionally, just until butter is light brown. (Watch carefully; butter can brown and then burn quickly.) Cool 15 minutes.

2. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with shortening or cooking spray.

3. In large bowl, beat browned butter, cake mix, water and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pan.

4. Bake 34 to 39 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

5. Spread jam evenly over top of cake. Freeze at least 15 minutes or until jam is set.  

6. Meanwhile, in 2-quart saucepan, melt 1/2 cup butter over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly; reduce heat to low. Boil and stir 2 minutes; remove from heat. Stir in milk. Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly. Cool to lukewarm, about 20 minutes.

7. Gradually stir powdered sugar into brown sugar mixture. If frosting becomes too stiff, stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, or heat over low heat, stirring constantly. Spread frosting over jam. Store loosely covered at room temperature.  

High Altitude (3500-6500 ft):  Heat oven to 375°F. Stir 1 tablespoon Gold Medal® all-purpose flour into dry cake mix. Decrease 1/2 cup butter in cake to 1/4 cup. Increase water to 1 1/2 cups. Beat browned butter, cake mix, water and eggs on low speed 4 minutes. Bake 40 to 45 minutes.

Answer 7

if you have blender, try this:

blend a mango(without peeling) but press # 1 only in the blander . Put many ice so that the mangoes will not turn into a shake. Just in number 1 so that there are tidbits of mango. Add some coconut which are like those in a salad. If you dont have coconut, just add some kind of fruits,.. either you cut it into squares, circles, or anything you want. Be creative! Add evaporated milk- 2 spoonfuls; you can use the one in a can. I suggest you use Carnation Evap.

--- I hope I helped. Even though you don't select my answer as the best.. If you will not use this for the anniversary of your parent, I suggest you try it one day. hehehe.. thanks!

Answer 8

Nigella Lawson's chocolate pots. Very easy and delicious.

6 oz plain choc, 1/2 cup double cream, 1/3 cup whole milk, 1/tsp vanilla extract (miss it out if you don't have any), 1/2 tsp all spice ( again can miss out) 1 egg.

Crush choc in blender, heat cream & milk and add to choc then process for 30secs, crack in egg- process for another 45 secs. Pour into glasses and set overnight.

Voila!

Answer 9

Jam Tarts are very easy to make, and i think they're pretty tasty...

Here's an easy recipe with step by step pictures:

http://www.cookuk.co.uk/children/jam_tar...

and how about fairy cakes...here's a basic recipe:

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/food/experts/c...

You could add white chocolate chunks, sultanas, hundreds and thousands or what ever you'd like really...Or maybe you could make icing and ice them all...

Good Luck

x*x

Answer 10

You are good to your parents and no matter what you make, they will love it!

You could do an "Ice Cream Bar"... put out tubs of different flavours of ice cream, different sauces, sweets, chocolate sprinkles, etc... and let everyone make their own ice cream sundae

Or, have a grown up Jelly

Line a loaf tin with Cling Film

Get lots of mixed berries - raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, etc... and put them into the tin.

Get a strawberry jelly and make up according to the packet, except use haldf the quantity of cold water.

Pour this over the fruit and allow it to set in the fridge

Or a creamy dessert - Ramanoff

Drain a tin of strawberries and set aside

Have equal quantities of cream and strawberry yoghurt.

Whip the cream till you get soft peaks, then fold through the yoghurt, strawberries, and some mini marshmallows

Or a Raspberry Fridge cake - this was the first dessert I ever made

Slice a shop bought raspberry swiss roll into 2cm sliced.

Drain a tin of Raspberries and mash the fruit. Keep the juice too

Whip a carton of cream until you have peaks

lay our 3 slices of the roll side-by-side and Drizzle over a little of the juice. Top with a layer of the mashed fruit

Add another layer of the roll, drizzle with juice and more raspberries. Finally another layer of roll and drizzle with a little juice.

Set a side for a couple of hours, then cover with the whipped cream before you serve it.

Enjoy!

Answer 11

PETITE CHERRY CHEESE

2 8-oz pkgs. cream cheese, softened

3/4 c. sugar

2 eggs

1 T. lemon juice

1 tsp. vanilla

24 vanilla wafers

1 can cherry pie filling

Beat creama cheese, sugar, eggs, lemon juice & vanilla until light and fluffy. Line muffin tins with paper cups; place a vanilla wafer in bottom of each. Fill the cups 3/4 full of cream cheese mixture. Bake at 375 for 15-20 min, or until set. Top each with about 1 TB. pie filling and chill ... Makes 24

Answer 12

Chocolate tart

You can buy the pastry or you can make it heres the recipe for it all:

Method

Crumb together by hand the butter in to the flour

Add the sugar

Mix in the egg and enough milk to form a soft dough – add flavour (op)

Flavour (optional) vanilla essence, grated chocolate, zest, groung or chopped nuts etc

Ingredients

225g / 8 oz plain flour

110g / 4 oz butter

80g / 3 oz sugar

1 large egg

Put the pastry into a pastry tin, bake blind (with grease proff paper and cans ontop) for 20/25 minutes.

Filling:

Ingredients (Makes 36)

Basic truffle mixture:

5 oz (150 g)

5 fl oz (150 ml) thick double cream

1 oz (25 g) unsalted butter

2 tablespoons rum or brandy ( if allowed)

Heat the double cream in a sauce pan, add in the chocolate broken up when the chocolate has melted take it off the heat add butter and brandy then pour into pastry.

Or you could make it MUCH easier and crush shortbread bisuits, melt butter and mix together, chill in fridge for 20 minutes.. Then pour on top the filling and cool.

Answer 13

apple crumble

3-4 medium sized apples

cardamom powder

1 cup wheat flour

1 cup powdered sugar

500 gms butter

peel the apples and slice them really thin..in a bowl mix the flour,butter and sugar nicely.....grease a pan and add one layer of apples..sprinke cardamom powder and add another layer....repear this process..finaaly at the top add the flour mixture and bake in the oven..serve hot with cream or with ice cream....

Answer 14

Ingredients

2 bags Stella Doro Anginetti cookies

1 can crushed pineapple

1 container Cool Whip

1 box instant pudding (many flavors work such as lemon, pistachio, vanilla)

step 2Directions

Slice tops of Anginetti cookies, making sure the bottom stays intact (no holes). Drain pineapple. Mix dry pudding mix with Cool Whip until blended. Add crushed pineapple. Refrigerate about 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Drop by tablespoon onto bottom layer of cookie. Replace tops. Serve immediately or refrigerate puffs until ready to serve - best served within 6 hours of preparation.

hope this helps..

Answer 15

Line the bottom of a good looking bowl with Tennis Biscuits (or Digestive biscuits)

Mix 1 can of caramel condensed milk with 250ml lightly beaten cream

Put on top of the biscuits and grate peppermint chocholate all over.

Put in the fridge to set for at least 2 hours

Don't eat either the caramel or the chocholate while making this dessert or peppermint tart!!

Answer 16

This is VERY easy to make

Chocolate Pudding Pie

1 graham cracker crust

2 small boxes of  instant chocolate pudding

2 cups milk

1 carton of cool whip

Place pudding mix in bowl and slowly add milk and mix well. spoon half the pudding mix into pie shell.add1/2 cool whip to remaining pudding and combine well...spoon into pie shell atop the pudding..top with remainder of cool whip.